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Walk-in Advising: Resume Reviews
Thu, Feb 15, 2007 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Student Activity
Please feel free to come in during these walk-in hours! No appointment is necessary. Come in for a 10 minute resume reviews, or question regarding the career fair!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 218
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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National and International Competitive Fellowships
Thu, Feb 15, 2007 @ 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
National and International Competitive Fellowships Learn about major national/international
fellowships such as the Rhodes Scholarship, Marshall Scholarship, Fulbright Grants, Luce Scholarship, Gates Cambridge Scholarship, and more! The session will include details on how you can apply for these awards that support study/research abroad, and tips on making a strong application will be presented. For more information on all of these fellowships, including profiles of previous winners from USC, visit: www.usc.edu/arp/fellowships Note: Most fellowships described here require applicants to hold US citizenship at the time of application. USC Office of Academic Recognition Programs
Student Union 202, 213-740-9116, arpstaff@usc.eduLocation: Topping Student Center 205
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Julie Phaneuf
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Preparing for the Engineering Career Fair
Thu, Feb 15, 2007 @ 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Make a great first impression! Learn how to optimize your time, approach employers and prepare for the recruiting event of the semester.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Changing Project Delivery Strategy
Thu, Feb 15, 2007 @ 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
CHANGING PROJECT DELIVERY STRATEGY: AN IMPLEMENTATION FRAMEWORK FOR THE TRANSPORTATION PROJECT SECTORGiovanni C. Migliaccio2007 Ph.D. Candidate, University of Texas at AustinUSC-CEE Faculty Candidate in Construction ManagementThursday, February 15, 20072:30 – 4:00pm, Kaprielian Hall, 203Abstract: For organizations such as departments of transportation, other public agencies, or private companies, the adoption of a new approach to procure services for delivery of construction projects requires significant organizational changes; these changes include modifications to both their work processes and existing organizational structures. Because these adjustments encompass many different aspects of the organization's interests, they must occur for the change initiative to be successfully implemented. Researchers at the Center for Construction Industry Studies are investigating the adoption of innovative project delivery approaches within the transportation project sector in order to better understand the dynamics of this type of organizational change. This seminar will present findings from a study of state transportation agencies that have recently implemented the design-build method for delivering highway projects.Using as a case study the new $1.3 billion SH 130 tolled expressway project in central Texas, the research team has analyzed project documentation and performed 39 interviews to individuals affiliated with owner, legal counselor, engineering consultant, and contractor. Findings suggest that project representatives institutionalize practices and routines connected to the new approach by adapting to new challenges, rather than by "overwriting" previously existing practices. Consequently, the institutionalization of innovative approaches to project delivery happens concurrently with a deinstitutionalization of the previous approaches. This concurrency produces different effects on the project environment, depending on the mediating action of some emerging industry practices and the perspectives of the involved parties.Using these findings, the presenter has developed a conceptual framework for helping owner organizations implement a new project delivery approach. This framework has been further enriched by the data from a comparative study of three transportation projects around the United States. In addition, 90 experts in the implementation of the design-build method for transportation projects were identified and invited to participate in a Delphi study to validate and populate the developed framework. Findings from all of these studies will be presented in this seminar, including preliminary findings from the ongoing Delphi study.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 203
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Changing Project Delivery Strategy......
Thu, Feb 15, 2007 @ 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
CHANGING PROJECT DELIVERY STRATEGY:
AN IMPLEMENTATION FRAMEWORK
FOR THE TRANSPORTATION PROJECT SECTORSpeaker:
Giovanni C. Migliaccio,
2007 Ph.D. Candidate, University of Texas at Austin,Abstract:
For organizations such as departments of transportation, other public agencies, or private companies, the adoption of a new approach to procure services for delivery of construction projects requires significant organizational changes; these changes include modifications to both their work processes and existing organizational structures. Because these adjustments encompass many different aspects of the organization's interests, they must occur for the change initiative to be successfully implemented. Researchers at the Center for Construction Industry Studies are investigating the adoption of innovative project delivery approaches within the transportation project sector in order to better understand the dynamics of this type of organizational change. This seminar will present findings from a study of state transportation agencies that have recently implemented the design-build method for delivering highway projects.
Using as a case study the new $1.3 billion SH 130 tolled expressway project in central Texas, the research team has analyzed project documentation and performed 39 interviews to individuals affiliated with owner, legal counselor, engineering consultant, and contractor. Findings suggest that project representatives institutionalize practices and routines connected to the new approach by adapting to new challenges, rather than by "overwriting" previously existing practices. Consequently, the institutionalization of innovative approaches to project delivery happens concurrently with a deinstitutionalization of the previous approaches. This concurrency produces different effects on the project environment, depending on the mediating action of some emerging industry practices and the perspectives of the involved parties.
Using these findings, the presenter has developed a conceptual framework for helping owner organizations implement a new project delivery approach. This framework has been further enriched by the data from a comparative study of three transportation projects around the United States. In addition, 90 experts in the implementation of the design-build method for transportation projects were identified and invited to participate in a Delphi study to validate and populate the developed framework. Findings from all of these studies will be presented in this seminar, including preliminary findings from the ongoing Delphi study.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - rielian Hall, 203
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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CS Colloquium-David Woodruff
Thu, Feb 15, 2007 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Title: Efficient and Private Distance ApproximationDavid WoodruffMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyAbstract:I will cover two of my results in distance approximation. Consider the setting in which two parties want to approximate the distance between their input vectors.First I will consider l_2, the Euclidean distance. It is known how to approximate l_2 efficiently. However, if we require the protocol to be private, that is, neither party can learn more than what follows from the distance and his/her private input, much less is known. Feigenbaum, Ishai, Malkin, Nissim, Strauss, and Wright [FIMNSW] gave a protocol with O(sqrt{d}) communication for privately approximating the Hamming distance of two d-dimensional vectors. I will give a private protocol with polylog(d) communication for l_2. As a special case, this yields an exponential improvement over [FIMNSW] for the Hamming distance.Next I will consider the l_p distance, for p > 2. This problem is motivated by recent research in streaming algorithms, and has applications in database theory. I will give a 1-round protocol achieving optimal communication for this problem, up to logarithmic factors. It is easy to implement in the streaming model, and consequently resolves the main open question of a 1996 paper of Alon, Matias, and Szegedy.Joint work with Piotr Indyk (STOC 2005, TCC 2006).Biography: David Woodruff is a fifth-year PhD student at MIT. He received his master's in computer science, and B.S. degrees in both computer science and mathematics, all from MIT. He is interested in theoretical computer science, particularly algorithms, complexity theory, and cryptography. Hosted by David Kempe
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Nancy Levien
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SWE: General Meeting - Business Etiquette Dinner Tips
Thu, Feb 15, 2007 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Learn all you've ever wanted to know (and more) about how to act gracefully at the table and avoid spilling sauce on your shirt. Come to our meeting on dining etiquette. Don't forget to bring your questions--and your appetite!
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 107
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: SWE
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Viterbi Early Career Chair Lecture: JEANNE BAMBERGER: Tracing the compositional process
Thu, Feb 15, 2007 @ 06:30 PM - 09:10 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
SPEAKER: Jeanne Bamberger, http://web.mit.edu/jbambMIT Professor of Music and Urban Education, emerita,Visiting Professor, School of Education, UC-BerkeleyTITLE: Tracing the compositional process — a natural experimentSHORT DESCRIPTION:
I will pick and choose among the compositional decisions the students make in an effort to demonstrate how a computer-based environment can help to make musical intuitions explicit. And how these, in turn, can reveal the implicit structures of common musical practice.This is also a guest lecture in ISE 575 Topics in Engineering Approaches to Music Cognition. This year's topic is Human-Centered Computing in Generating Music. The class website is at http://www-scf.usc.edu/~ise575/c/syllabusThe lecture is based on Jeanne Bamberger's "The development of intuitive musical understanding: a natural experiment," Psychology of Music, vol.31(1):7:36, 2003, available at http://www-scf.usc.edu/~ise575/c/papers/bamberger2003.pdf .HOST: Elaine Chew, USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Please rsvp by noon on Feb 14 to echew@usc.edu .
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 167 (subj to change pending attendance, please rsvp)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Elaine Chew
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Viterbi Early Career Chair Lecture: JEANNE BAMBERGER: Tracing the compositional process
Thu, Feb 15, 2007 @ 06:30 PM - 09:10 PM
Integrated Media Systems Center
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
SPEAKER: Jeanne Bamberger, http://web.mit.edu/jbambMIT Professor of Music and Urban Education, emerita,Visiting Professor, School of Education, UC-BerkeleyTITLE: Tracing the compositional process — a natural experimentSHORT DESCRIPTION:
I will pick and choose among the compositional decisions the students make in an effort to demonstrate how a computer-based environment can help to make musical intuitions explicit. And how these, in turn, can reveal the implicit structures of common musical practice.This is also a guest lecture in ISE 575 Topics in Engineering Approaches to Music Cognition. This year's topic is Human-Centered Computing in Generating Music. The class website is at http://www-scf.usc.edu/~ise575/c/syllabusThe lecture is based on Jeanne Bamberger's "The development of intuitive musical understanding: a natural experiment," Psychology of Music, vol.31(1):7:36, 2003, available at http://www-scf.usc.edu/~ise575/c/papers/bamberger2003.pdf .HOST: Elaine Chew, USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Please rsvp by noon on Feb 14 to echew@usc.edu .
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 167 (subj to change pending attendance, please rsvp)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Elaine Chew
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Science, Serendipity and the Search for Truth: Point of View
Thu, Feb 15, 2007 @ 07:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Point of View will focus on the limitations and opportunities afforded by the necessary use of multiple points of view in a variety of perhaps surprising contexts. USC anthropologist Amy Parish will discuss how point of view has been central to her research into relationships among female bonobos. From a journalistic perspective, Victor Navasky, author of the recently published A Matter of Opinion, will draw on his experience as an editor at Monocle, "a leisurely quarterly of political satire" (it came out twice a year), The New York Times and The Nation to speak about objectivity, subjectivity, ideology and opinion. Victor is currently chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review. Finally, Jon Boorstin, Oscar-nominated filmmaker and author of Making Movies Work, will talk about how making movies, and enjoying them, relies upon the mysteries of point of view.For more information, please visit:http://www.usc.edu/webapps/events_calendar/custom/113/index.php?category=Item&item=0.861401&active_category=Upcoming
Location: Gin Wong Conference Center
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
